A Funeral Fantasie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Pale at its ghastly noonA
Pauses above the death still wood the moonA
The night sprite sighing through the dim air stirsB
The clouds descend in rainC
Mourning the wan stars waneC
Flickering like dying lamps in sepulchresB
Haggard as spectres vision like and dumbD
Dark with the pomp of death and moving slowE
Towards that sad lair the pale procession comeD
Where the grave closes on the night belowE
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With dim deep sunken eyeF
Crutched on his staff who trembles tottering byF
As wrung from out the shattered heart one groanG
Breaks the deep hush aloneG
Crushed by the iron fate he seems to gatherH
All life's last strength to stagger to the bierI
And hearken Do these cold lips murmur FatherH
The sharp rain drizzling through that place of fearJ
Pierces the bones gnawed fleshless by despairK
And the heart's horror stirs the silver hairK
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Fresh bleed the fiery woundsB
Through all that agonizing heart undoneL
Still on the voiceless lips my Father soundsB
And still the childless Father murmurs SonL
Ice cold ice cold in that white shroud he liesB
Thy sweet and golden dreams all vanished thereK
The sweet and golden name of Father diesB
Into thy curse ice cold ice cold he liesB
Dead what thy life's delight and Eden wereH
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Mild as when fresh from the arms of AuroraM
While the air like Elysium is smiling aboveN
Steeped in rose breathing odors the darling of FloraM
Wantons over the blooms on his winglets of loveN
So gay o'er the meads went his footsteps in blissB
The silver wave mirrored the smile of his faceB
Delight like a flame kindled up at his kissB
And the heart of the maid was the prey of his chaseB
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Boldly he sprang to the strife of the worldO
As a deer to the mountain top carelessly springsB
As an eagle whose plumes to the sun are unfurledO
Swept his hope round the heaven on its limitless wingsB
Proud as a war horse that chafes at the reinC
That kingly exults in the storm of the braveP
That throws to the wind the wild stream of its maneC
Strode he forth by the prince and the slaveP
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Life like a spring day serene and divineQ
In the star of the morning went by as a tranceB
His murmurs he drowned in the gold of the wineQ
And his sorrows were borne on the wave of the danceB
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Worlds lay concealed in the hopes of his youthR
When once he shall ripen to manhood and fameS
Fond father exult In the germs of his youthR
What harvests are destined for manhood and fameS
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Not to be was that manhood The death bell is knellingT
The hinge of the death vault creaks harsh on the earsB
How dismal O Death is the place of thy dwellingT
Not to be was that manhood Flow on bitter tearsB
Go beloved thy path to the sunL
Rise world upon world with the perfect to restU
Go quaff the delight which thy spirit has wonL
And escape from our grief in the Halls of the BlestU
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Again in that thought what a healing is foundV
To meet in the Eden to which thou art fledW
Hark the coffin sinks down with a dull sullen soundV
And the ropes rattle over the sleep of the deadW
And we cling to each other O Grave he is thineQ
The eye tells the woe that is mute to the earsB
And we dare to resent what we grudge to resignQ
Till the heart's sinful murmur is choked in its tearsB
Pale at its ghastly noonA
Pauses above the death still wood the moonA
The night sprite sighing through the dim air stirsB
The clouds descend in rainC
Mourning the wan stars waneC
Flickering like dying lamps in sepulchresB
The dull clods swell into the sullen moundV
Earth one look yet upon the prey we gaveP
The grave locks up the treasure it has foundV
Higher and higher swells the sullen moundV
Never gives back the graveP

Friedrich Schiller



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